Example sentences of "to it [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be a close race on paper , but when it comes down to it we 'll see what happens . |
| 2 | The strong wind stance described earlier is the basis of the funboard stance , but to it we can add a further ingredient — the hips and bottom . |
| 3 | to find out from her if it comes to it we can perhaps ask the old lady if she can set something up where |
| 4 | So , erm you might not get on to number four , if you do , or I tell you to start , can you think of two or three images to add to it which would , which would fit in with the others . |
| 5 | The social services department should also tell you about services provided by itself or other services known to it which could be of use to you . |
| 6 | More specifically , the accident resulting from the first incident had only taken place because of a concatenation of events leading to it which could not have been foreseen . |
| 7 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 8 | If the registered transferor , A , was not entitled to the shares , what will pass when he transfers to B or C is not , strictly speaking , either a legal or equitable interest but only his imperfect title to it which will not prevail against the true owner . |
| 9 | However , he knew that if he failed to live up to it they would not take his word again . |
| 10 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 11 | if they wanted to come along to it they could |
| 12 | You ca n't even he probably , he , he could n't , you do n't have to it they can give you |
| 13 | If he had not drawn her attention to it she would never have noticed the little glass cubicle , tucked away high up under the roof in one corner of the arcade . |
| 14 | She gulped hard , struggling to suppress the impulse to laugh , knowing that if she gave in to it she would not be able to stop . |
| 15 | She had meant to confide that she , too , was a seduced woman ; yet when it came to it she could n't find the correct words . |
| 16 | If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better . |
| 17 | By this time there was very little he did not know about being a prince ; and long before he came to it he would know more than most men born to it about being a king . |
| 18 | But there was a quality to it he would not have expected . |
| 19 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 20 | When it came to it he could n't kill the happiness he saw in her . |
| 21 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 22 | If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards . |
| 23 | But I thought when he puts his mind to it he can really try ca n't he ? |
| 24 | But when it comes down to it you ca n't do it can you ? |
| 25 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 26 | I might have to hold on to it You 'll have to get people to you know . |
| 27 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 28 | After a flight to the east , your body is behind the new local time and to adjust to it you will have to advance your body clock . |
| 29 | There was never my my view and and one day I shall if I ever get round to it I might set this all out . |
| 30 | well er , you know if it comes to it I 'll have to . |